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<h2 class="heading2">Migrating User Accounts, Domain Names and Web Sites from Other Hosting Platforms</h2>
<p class="bodytext">Migration of user accounts, domain names and web sites from other hosting platforms to Plesk control panel is performed by Plesk Migration Manager tool, created for easy and fast migration from other, competitive control panels to Plesk, and also for migration from older releases of Plesk and from different platforms of Plesk. </p>
<p class="bodytext">At the present moment you can migrate the following platforms to Plesk:</p>
<ul class="listbullet"><li class="listbullet">Confixx 1.65, 2, 3</li><li class="listbullet">CommuniGate Pro</li><li class="listbullet">earlier releases of Plesk and Slash (for FreeBSD or Linux)</li><li class="listbullet">Cobalt Raq 2, 3, 4, 550, XTR</li><li class="listbullet">cPanel 9, 10, 11</li><li class="listbullet">Ensim 3.5, 4, 10 (experimental, should not be used on production servers)</li><li class="listbullet">Hsphere 2.4.2</li></ul><p class="bodytext"></p>
<p class="bodytext">To migrate all user accounts, domains, and web sites with applications from other hosting platforms:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Server</strong> shortcut.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Migration Manager</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Services</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Start New Migration</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Leave the <strong class="specialbold">Migration</strong> option selected, and specify the following options:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">The source host. Specify either the IP address or the host name of the server, from which you want to transfer data.</li><li class="listbullet2">The login name and password used for logging in to the remote host you are migrating. You can either use the 'root' login, or use an account with sudo enabled, provided that this account is allowed to run any commands through sudo.<p class="listnote2"><strong class="buttons">Note:</strong>  If you have enabled on the source host the ability to obtain superuser privileges without supplying a password (there is the line <code class="monospace">user (ALL)=ALL NOPASSWD:ALL</code> in the file <code class="monospace">/etc/sudoers</code>), then you do not need to specify any password in the <strong class="specialbold">Sudo password</strong> box.</p>
</li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Make sure that the remote hosting platform is running, and the &quot;iconv&quot; utility is installed in the remote host's operating system.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Next&gt;&gt;</strong>. The migration manager will connect to the specified host and gather information on the business objects of the remote hosting platform.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select the <strong class="specialbold">Dump all</strong> option in the <strong class="specialbold">Migration mode</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If the Migration Manager detected the hosting platform incorrectly, select the platform from the <strong class="specialbold">Source platform</strong> drop-down box.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If you want to specify data compression options, domain templates to be applied during migration, or remote host's hard drive partitions that should be used for storing temporary files, click the <strong class="specialbold">Advanced</strong> tab, and select the required options.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Next&gt;&gt;</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Once the data are retrieved from the remote host, specify the IP address mapping settings and click <strong class="specialbold">Migrate</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Once migration is completed, a detailed report will be presented on the screen. Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong> to exit the wizard.</li></ol><p class="bodytext"></p>
<p class="bodytext">To migrate individual user accounts, domain names and web sites with applications from other hosting platforms:</p>
<ol class="procedurelistnumber"><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Server</strong> shortcut.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Migration Manager</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click the <strong class="specialbold">Start New Migration</strong> icon in the <strong class="specialbold">Tools</strong> group.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Leave the <strong class="specialbold">Migration</strong> option selected, and specify the following options:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">The source host. Specify either the IP address or the host name of the server, from which you want to transfer data.</li><li class="listbullet2">The login name and password used for logging in to the remote host you are migrating. You can either use the &quot;root&quot; login, or use an account with sudo enabled, provided that this account is allowed to run any commands through sudo.</li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Make sure that the remote hosting platform is running, and the &quot;iconv&quot; utility is installed in the remote host's operating system.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Next&gt;&gt;</strong>. The migration manager will connect to the specified host and gather information on the business objects of the remote hosting platform.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select the <strong class="specialbold">Select objects that your wish to migrate from host</strong> option.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If the Migration Manager detected the hosting platform incorrectly, select the platform from the <strong class="specialbold">Source platform</strong> drop-down box.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">If you want to specify data compression options, domain templates to be applied during migration, or remote host's hard drive partitions that should be used for storing temporary files, click the <strong class="specialbold">Advanced</strong> tab, and select the required options.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Next&gt;&gt;</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select which objects you wish to migrate to Plesk:<ul class="listbullet2"><li class="listbullet2">To migrate user accounts, click the <strong class="specialbold">Accounts</strong> tab and specify which accounts should be migrated by selecting the corresponding check boxes, then click <strong class="specialbold">Migrate</strong>.</li><li class="listbullet2">To migrate domain names, select the <strong class="specialbold">Domains</strong> tab and specify which domains should be migrated by selecting the corresponding check boxes, then click <strong class="specialbold">Migrate</strong>. On the next screen, select which user account on the Plesk server you want to migrate the domains to. Then, click <strong class="specialbold">Migrate</strong>. </li></ul></li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Select the IP address on your Plesk host, to which the remote host's IP addresses should be mapped.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Click <strong class="specialbold">Migrate</strong>.</li><li class="procedurelistnumber">Once migration is completed, a detailed report will be presented on the screen. Click <strong class="specialbold">OK</strong> to exit the wizard.</li></ol><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
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<p class="relatedheading">In this section:</p><p class="relateditem"><a href="18091.htm" target="_self">Performing Migration Within a Single Server</a></p></td>
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